In early June 2020, Baltimore's Democratic Primary will take place and the winner will be highly likely to be elected mayor in November. Here is a profile of the key candidates. In this brief blog post, I want to sketch out a few thoughts about Mayors.
At dinner tonight, my wife told me that between 1/3 to 1/2 of COVID-19 deaths have taken place at nursing homes. I asked her a Chicago Price Theory question.
As American cities enacted indoor anti-smoking laws, smokers responded by smoking outside. If from now on, we are wearing masks outside --- smoking becomes more inconvenient and fewer people will smoke.